Calculator for OpenMoko

Jeff Andros jeff at bigredtj.com
Fri Mar 23 05:46:44 CET 2007


On 3/22/07, Rodolphe Ortalo <rodolphe.ortalo at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Le jeudi 22 mars 2007 à 15:43 -0400, Robert Alatalo a écrit :
> > I don't know if you were starting this from scratch or not...
> [...]
>
> Yes, from scratch. Honestly, it was just a test don't use it now for an
> exam or serious engineering computation - in fact, initially, I
> considered putting it in the examples/ directory. But well, at least
> it's simple (there is only one source file in fact) and may eventually
> do the 4 operations usefully.
>
> I am also interested in seeing how the designers would want such a
> simple app. to operate (that's more an UI work then) or in details like
> internationalizations (or the autotools framework).
>
> For anything more serious, like a scientific calculator, or even
> financial, etc. I totally agree that we should try to start with an
> existing application code base. In fact, that's exactly what I wanted to
> do later on eventually. I'm glad to see that others had the same idea as
> that could be a bigger task. (I don't have a favorite, but I used
> gcalctool or qalculate! - even looked at the code of the latter.)
>
> However, in the meantime, it seems I finally got the four basic
> arithmetic operations right (with 10 digits or so limited precision)
> with honest display (I had to redo a sort of sprintf("%g"...) however)
> _and_ bigger fonts!
> Just for your viewing pleasure, what do you think of the slightly
> changed look?:
> http://rodolphe.ortalo.free.fr/mokocalc2.png
> http://rodolphe.ortalo.free.fr/mokocalc3.png
>
> Oh, they always say "release early, release often", so, just in case:
> http://rodolphe.ortalo.free.fr/openmoko-calculator-0.0.2.tar.gz
> NB: debug output is still activated, if it compiles of course...
>
> And, if you have hints on how i18n should be done...
>
> Rodolphe
>
>
>
> Hey, I think it's cool... there are so many times all I want is a simple
calculator to check my mileage at the pump, prices at the grocery store,
etc.  the more buttons you put in the smaller they have to be.  as far as
I'm concerned this should stay simple and quick to use.  If people want a
more complicated/powerful calculator, that's what app manager's for.


-- 
Jeff
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